In the 1920s, a groundswell of popular support formed for a presidential run by the car magnate Henry Ford, a vicious anti-Semite who claimed that only a hard-driving businessman could solve the ...

If Henry Ford had had his way, his would have been the only name for U.S. Senate on the 1918 Michigan ballot. ... political parties, and political action committees. ...

Henry Ford and the Jews: ... and the Socialist Party both were major forces within American society. ... This was the political context of Ford’s barrage of anti-Semitic articles launched in 1920.

Henry Ford's anti-Semitic views echoed the fears and assumptions of many Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anti-Semitism in America saw a change in expression and virulence when ...